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🌳 Staff Engineer, Backend (Python)

Level: IC6 — Staff (Expert)

Location: Remote (US)

🚀 Company Overview

We’re a fast-growing, revenue-positive tech company building a state-of-the-art SaaS platform that modernizes how landscaping companies source and purchase supplies. Our marketplace streamlines procurement for contractors and suppliers alike. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer (Backend, Python) to lead architecture and execution for critical systems as we scale.

💼 Role Summary

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own outcomes—not just tasks. You’ll set technical direction, define architectural standards, and lead the delivery of high-impact initiatives across teams. You combine deep Python expertise with strong systems thinking, data rigor, and a bias for pragmatic, well-tested software. You mentor senior engineers, uplevel our engineering practices, and act as a force multiplier for the entire org.

🎯 What You’ll Do

  • Own architecture & strategy: Define service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and platform capabilities for reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Ship critical projects: Lead design and implementation of complex features and platform work (performance, observability, data integrity, security).
  • Raise the bar: Establish coding standards, testing strategies, and review practices; drive an RFC/design-doc culture.
  • Data excellence: Design data flows and pipelines that ensure accuracy, lineage, and healthy SLAs/SLOs.
  • Operational leadership: Improve on-call, incident response, and post-mortem quality; champion monitoring and metrics.
  • Mentor & multiply: Coach senior and mid-level engineers; pair program; guide design reviews; help with hiring and leveling.
  • Cross-functional impact: Partner with Product, Design, and Biz Ops to clarify requirements, de-risk roadmaps, and deliver measurable outcomes.

🔧 Our Environment (representative, not exhaustive)

  • Backend: Python (FastAPI or similar), type hints, pytest, modern packaging
  • Data/Storage: Postgres and at least no-sql document store (preferably Mongo); event-driven patterns where useful
  • Delivery: CI/CD, feature flags, trunk-based or similar pragmatic workflows
  • Tooling: Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT/Copilot) responsibly to move faster without reinventing the wheel

✅ What We’re Looking For

  • Proven Staff-level impact: You’ve led multi-month, multi-stakeholder initiatives that changed how a system or org operates.
  • Depth in Python backend: 10+ years professional experience (or equivalent) designing and operating production services at scale.
  • Exceptional system design: Strong grasp of distributed systems trade-offs, data modeling, caching, idempotency, resiliency patterns, and performance tuning.
  • Data pipeline competence: Designing/operating batch and/or streaming flows; enforcing quality, lineage, and SLAs.ut authority: Clear communicator who influences across teams; mentors seniors and sets org-wide standards.
  • Pragmatism: You ship incremental value, manage risk with experiments, and document decisions clearly.
  • Nice to have: Experience with FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy; infra-as-code; cloud platforms; security & compliance fundamentals.

🌟 Why Join Us

  • Competitive staff-level compensation (200-250k base + profit sharing/bonus + equity)
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Remote-first, high-trust, generative culture
  • Direct impact on a product used by real businesses every day
  • Collaborate with kind, high-ownership teammates and modern tooling

✅ Application Process: